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ABILITY-TO-PAY PRINCIPLE: A principle of taxation in which taxes are based on the income or resource-ownership ability of people to pay the tax. The income tax collected by our friends at the Internal Revenue Service is one of the most common taxes that seeks to abide by the ability-to-pay principle. In theory, the income tax system is set up such that people with greater incomes pay more taxes. Proportional and progressive taxes follow this ability-to-pay principle, while regressive taxes, such as sales taxes and Social Security taxes, don't.
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Lesson 10: Utility and Demand | Unit 1: The Set Up
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- Some definitions:
- Utility is the satisfaction of wants and needs obtained from the consumption or use of goods and services.
- Utility maximization is the process of obtaining the highest possible level of utility from the consumption or use of goods and services.
- Constrained utility maximization is the process of obtaining the highest possible level of utility from the consumption or use of goods and services, under given restrictions, when the highest overall level of utility cannot be reached.
- One last utility concept:
- The law of diminishing marginal utility is a principle stating that as more of a good is consumed eventually each additional unit of the good provides less additional utility; that is, marginal utility declines as the quantity consumed increases.
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OLIGOPOLY AND MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION Oligopoly and monopolistic competition have some similarities, but also have a few important differences. Both are examples of imperfect competition on the market structure continuum between ideals of perfect competition and monopoly. However, oligopoly contains a small number of large firms and monopolistic competition contains a large number of small firms. The dividing line between oligopoly and monopolistic competition can be blurred due to the number of firms in the industry.
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Okun's Law posits that the unemployment rate increases by 1% for every 2% gap between real GDP and full-employment real GDP.
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"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minuteshould be enjoyed and savored." -- Earl Nightingale
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